Quiet on Blog but busy in Studio

Fabric Book covers once again.  This time not only did I make covers for composition books, but for artist sketch books and 3x5 card booklets.  I really enjoyed the one just above.  I plan to create more using my many scraps.

The above are some of my dyed/printed silk scarves.  How I love to print using real leaves.  There's a meditative process happening when I print.

And lastly, I've made some fabric paper using pieces of paper towel that protected my hands when printing leaves.  I layered a thin muslin with torn pieces paper towels and painted with thinned white glue.  I have no plans at the present for this but I know I'll create something sometime.

I also made this year's Christmas ornaments but forgot to take a picture.  Next time.

More on Paper fabric

My favorites thus far.
Acrylic paint scraped using an old credit card.

Walnut ink sprayed. When dried stamped with white acrylic paint.
Walnut ink sprayed. When dried, green acrylic sponged.Walnut Ink. I definitely like the ink.

I'm heading up north for a couple plus weeks. Dog sitting for my darling daughter's Baxter, Lexington, KY, husband's 40th reunion at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, then absolute art fun at the Nature Printing Society's workshop at New Switzerland, NC.

New Work - The Language of Leaves

My latest!!!! All have been attached to stretcher strips. I pieced the background: some of the fabrics were first stamped or leaf printed. After quilting I added elements: leaf printed book page which was adhered to cheesecloth using watered down glue, different fabric shapes, a quilted leaf print and beads.

Fun with Paper Fabric

One of my groups I belong to mmartfriends@yahoogroups.com is holding a workshop following "Stitch Alchemy" by Kelli Perkins.
http://www.amazon.com/Stitch-Alchemy-Combining-Fabric-Paper/dp/1596681136

So I've been experimenting. Here are some of my first attempts. I've used muslin as the base fabric and watered white glue (I'm using all the glue I have in my art stash - Sobo, Alene's tacky, Elmer's). I didn't take notes on which is which. Oh, well. I'll go for the most inexpensive in the future - Elmer's I believe. I added various papers - napkins, printed tissue, book pages, dress pattern tissue. Sometimes I ended with a layer of tissue. Sometime I painted a wash when the glue was still dry.

Yesterday I collaged on more papers so I can start using inks to cover them.